As a vivid learner, which I feel proud in addressing myself; System Thinking is one of my all time favorite subjects. I owe to the various websites and their writers for providing such wonderful materials related to the subject. Let me clarify here that this piece of writing is mere compilation of various information collected from various sources. Yea somewhere I have included my thought process as well.
Needless to say the subject matter has influenced me a lot, including the name of topic itself. The root of the learning goes back to my MBA days, where Mr. Sandeep Kayastha, Dean IBS Hyderabad sowed the seed through his lectures during his favorite topic “Modeling and Simulation”. Probably he always commanded the best regards from his disciples, including me.

For the benefit of those who pretend as thinking is not new to them, the thinking is mental process, whose basic process involves the reflection of the pattern matching and recognition of new situation, forming new experience. Thinking involves the mental manipulation of information, as when we form concepts, engage in problem solving, reasoning and decision making. It is higher cognitive function.

We often understand, as we are master of thinking, probably because we don’t want to accept that we lag in something, especially thinking process. I strongly vouch for the process of thinking can be evolved to even higher cognitive level by understanding the thinking process itself.

We, as human being, better branded as the best thinking creature of the earth, are surrounded by various thinking systems, if not animals (no pun intended). I call it mere entity if these systems are simply the existence of the various parts within it. But the existence of the system is from the mutual interaction of its parts. The key emphasis here is one of “mutual interaction,” in that something is occurring between the parts, over time, which maintains the system. A system is different than a heap or a collection, mostly. Just for the thought provocation, the word system probably has more varied meanings than any other word in use. For me the system comprises whole universe and due to continuous interaction of several parts within, new learning is evolved.

As a thinking person, we observe, integrate, assimilate and evolve as a learning person. Here comes the death of a caterpillar. I am sure at some stage of our journey through our lives; we must have observed that we don’t wanna kill our image, our reputation or even people’s perception about us. One day or the other the caterpillar has to die, for the birth of a beautiful butterfly. This butterfly is nothing but a renewed WE. The incarnation of a new WE will not survive longer, if we are not learning rather evolving. We become a caterpillar, probably different one. We have to kill ourselves to become a new butterfly, everyday, every moment. Because death is not permanent neither birth, as also sketched in many religious verses.

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For further reference, reader may refer the work done by the famous thinkers as Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Peter Senge, John D Sterman, Jay Wright Forrester, and many more.